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This one is for all the geeks, if you've been into tech for a long time you've probably heard of Cliff Stoll and his book The Cuckoo's Egg and his paper Stalking The Wiley Hacker. PBS made "Nova" dramatization of his book starring Cliff himself called "The KGB, CIA, Computer and Me", and someone has [...]

It's about I got myself a new cert, it's almost a year since I got myself OPST Certified.. OPST stands for OSSTMM Professional Security Tester, recursive eh? OSSTMM stands for Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual. If you've never heard of the OSSTMM, you don't really need this cert The OPST is a certification of [...]

Yah I did... Sadly it didn't pour out loads of money..it just told me the resolution I was using was too low. Can you believe ATMs are using Windows XP? No wonder they are down so often.... What happened to OSes built in Assembly and Embedded Device Operating Systems?!

The famous egotistical XX blogger Xia Xue got owned last night.. SHE GOT OWNED HARD, LIKE IN THE ASS WITH A CHILLI PEPPER COVERED BAT. She is full of shit, she is full of herself, she isn't hot, she writes a lot of angsty crap but does have some great posts, whatever she's done however [...]

Ok it sounds like a sensational topic, but it's actually true, it happened quite some time back (January), but I sat on it for some time to give them a chance to fix it. Even though I believe in full disclosure, we have to be responsible to vendors and organisations too. Basically it went down [...]

No seriously I am, here's the proof. LOL Yeah I can't think of anything to write, well I can but I'm busy cleaning up, yes I'm domesticated.. I designed the shirt myself, it's a part of my collection of Geek, Hacking, Computer Security and various other things related T-shirts, Mouse Mats, Jumpers and Even thongs! [...]

Sleep.. I.. Need...sleeep *yawn* Stupid deadlines, stupid risk assessment, stupid lack of templates, stupid no guidelines, stupid project, stupid assholes, stupid lack of questionaire answers, stupid stupid *yawn* I slept for 3 hours yesterday morning, then another few hours in the evening, then reading and writing about a crappy risk assessment till 4am then slept [...]

Google has started providing factual answers.. For example if you type 'population malaysia' in the search box, it will no longer lead you to the pages that contain the info, it will actually give you the answer and the page it got the info from: Malaysia Population: 23,522,482 (July 2004 est.) According to http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/2119.html Also [...]

And as we are on a geek tip, Firefox 1.0.2 has been released with some security updates. Mozilla has begun rolling the Firefox 1.02 security update. It has appeared with the little fanfare and without the staggered rollout of 1.01 - have Mozilla sorted their distribution worries? Source: http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/03/23/2330245.shtml?tid=154&tid=172 You can download it HERE Why [...]

I've heard a lot of people complaining lately about Stimx being intermittent lately and very slow.. I've also experienced the same problem, sometimes can't access any US sites and when I can it's very slow.. For example even now, when it's up latency is horrendous.. I just found out why, hopefully things should be better [...]